Missing woman was still alive when police visited suspect

Sunday 01st June, 04:26 AM JST

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Brainiac at 04:37 PM JST - 31st May

Poor girl came home from a day of work and got ambushed by some guy who couldn't control his hormones.

I don't quite see how the crime could have happened as described above. I live in an apartment block like this one and I can never hear my neighbor opening his/her door when I am inside with my door closed. And how many seconds would it have taken the girl to open her door anyway? There couldn't have been enough time for the guy to dash out of his apartment, run up the corridor and attack the girl without her screaming. I think he must have already been lurking in the corridor, perhaps made small talk as she arrived home and then attacked her while she was fumbling with her keys.
romulus3 at 04:48 PM JST - 31st May

gee, I know its a violation of human rights but a more astute cop may have gone with his instinct and just barged into the guys house for a bit of a look.
Everton2 at 05:28 PM JST - 31st May

romulus3 - We are all brilliant in hindsight
romulus3 at 07:21 PM JST - 31st May

yeah. its always 50/50
bamboohat at 09:31 PM JST - 31st May

what was even worse was a few years back one of Dahmers victims actually escaped, was found nude outside, and the cops brought him back and let him back in. He was all drugged out and Dahmer told some story they believed. Poor guy.
Paolosan at 11:12 PM JST - 31st May

Natural intelligence, recruitment and training regimes...are these in any way important and ultimately, factors in performance of the J-Cops? I will ask one man in blue.
smithinjapan at 12:19 AM JST - 1st June

The usual J-cop 'intelligence'. I'd love to watch a show called JCSI, where they know a crime will occur but wanting wait for it so they don't have to do any preventative work. Kimtaku can play the Horatio Cane role and can walk up to a crime scene, see the dead bodies, and say, "We knew about the threats, but..." (sunglasses on), "Shouganai ne".

After that, it would be all about how the local PTA solves the crime, and the police keep the subject in 'interogation' for 10 weeks while doing nothing.
romulus3 at 02:40 AM JST - 1st June

if I was a Cop,one thing is for sure...I would have punched the smarmy little git in the nose and wondered around his flat and found the girl. No doubt, once I saw him on the news pleading innocent, I knew something was wrong, as did the J-Cops. It takes just one look. The cops knew they had their man for sure. They did nothing until too late but Romulus would have been Dirty Harry. "get outa my face dick wad, and oh look, here is a girl detained clearly against her will". more punching, and a lot of kicking....
DenshaDeGO at 08:45 AM JST - 1st June

smithinjapan - it would be a total hit, too
sk4ek at 12:41 PM JST - 1st June

Well the point is they went to EVERY apartment questioning the residents--and at that point had nothing to indicate this particular man was possibly involved. However, between the time they subsequently took his fingerprints, which came back "unidentifiable" (he'd apparently tried to alter his fingertips enough to confound a print match) and the time they finally decided something was up and went to re-take the prints from him later, he'd already acted.
smithinjapan at 06:42 PM JST - 1st June

Maybe this guy will get lucky like the guy who cut his sister into bits and be 'acquitted' of the dismemberment.
smithinjapan at 06:43 PM JST - 1st June

"Hoshijima was quoted as telling the investigators he had decided to kill her and mutilate her body ‘‘as I believed I would be arrested even if I released her,’’ the sources said."

Ummm... a little thing like severity of sentence might stop one from actually going from kidnapping to murder. Not in Japan, though, as recent sentencing teaches.
Fair dinkum! at 10:56 AM JST - 2nd June

This whole stinks of police bungling and procrastinating. He will be probably be released by saying, "She fell on the knife while I was raping here and the knife accidently chopped her into fist size pieces."
realist at 01:45 PM JST - 2nd June

Are the Japanese police for real? Another example of their incompetence, while another thread on this site is asking for proof of their alleged incompetence.
netrek at 02:49 PM JST - 2nd June

This murderer will probably only get a few years!

Hey since Japanese courts look so kindly on psychopathic, sadistic murderers maybe the family members of the victim should just track down the murderer when he is released and kill him then they can claim they went "temporarily insane" at the trauma he inflicted on their loved one.